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China’s Xi not seen in public because of ailment: sources

YoopyaSep 11, 20120

(Reuters) – China’s top leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, who has set off a storm of rumors after not showing up at scheduled public events for more

North Korea accepts flood aid offer from rival South

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Impoverished North Korea has accepted an offer of aid from rival South Korea after devastating summer floods, the South said on Monday, the

Iraq blasts kill 100 as fugitive VP gets death sentence

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Car bombs tore through mainly Shi’ite Baghdad districts on Sunday after Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced to death, as more

U.S. probes reported record-shredding of fuel buys for Afghan army

YoopyaSep 10, 20120

(Reuters) – Investigators are probing reports of record-shredding by officials in the U.S.-led NATO command that trains the Afghan army after learning that records of

Suicide bomber kills six in Kabul

YoopyaSep 8, 2012September 8, 20120

KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) A teenage suicide bomber struck outside NATO headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, killing six people, including child hawkers, as Afghanistan marked a

Southwest China quake kills 20: CCTV

YoopyaSep 7, 20120

BEIJING — At least 20 people were killed when a series of earthquakes, one of them measuring magnitude 5.7, struck southwest China on Friday, state

Analysis: Some Gulf rulers wary of U.S. shifts on Islamists, Iran

YoopyaSep 6, 2012September 6, 20120

(Reuters) – The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideological affiliates in the Arab Spring uprisings has stoked fears among Gulf Arab governments that

China, U.S. divided over Syria, sea row, but vow goodwill

YoopyaSep 5, 20120

(Reuters) – China and the United States were divided on Wednesday over how to end the bloodshed in Syria and defuse tension in the South

Rebels hit army headquarters in Damascus

YoopyaSep 5, 20120

(Reuters) – Syrian rebels said they planted bombs inside the Syrian army’s General Staff headquarters in central Damascus on Sunday as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces

Syria refugees reached record levels in August, says UN

YoopyaSep 4, 20120

More than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August, the UN says – the highest monthly figure since the conflict began in March 2011. This